Comments on: How Clouds Can Complement Consolidation http://gigaom.com/2009/06/17/how-clouds-can-complement-consolidation/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alex Popescu http://gigaom.com/2009/06/17/how-clouds-can-complement-consolidation/#comment-214478 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:38:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54316#comment-214478 Excellent article Joe! I believe that many businesses are or will be looking more seriously into the hybrid approach to address the challenges of the tomorrow. Anyways, I do believe that consolidation will always be one of the main goals of the IT departments even if we are talking about classical approaches (private or colo datacenter), public cloud or hybrid solutions.
On the other hand, I don’t think I totally agree with the hypothesis that consolidation (ie environment simplification and increased manageability) means single data center, so availability and geographic dispersions could theoretically still be achieved, but they usually require solid investments in the IT.

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]]> By: Cloud Computing: Sechs Facetten, die es zu beachten gilt » Daily Data http://gigaom.com/2009/06/17/how-clouds-can-complement-consolidation/#comment-214474 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:56:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54316#comment-214474 [...] Die Beachtung der sechs Aspekte kann dabei helfen, ein eigenes Modell zu entwickeln. Das es sechs sind, zeigt zum einen die Tragweite dieses Wandels, zum anderen auch die Komplexität solcher Initiativen. Mal eben so geht das nicht. Bevor hier einfach der gesamte Text kopiert und abgeschrieben wird. (das sorgt aus verständlichen Gründen für negative Kommentare), hier das Link: GigaOm: How clouds can complement consolidation [...]

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